110 TYRANNID^. 



place it at one end of the Elainemce, where it is certainly more 

 naturally stationed than with the Platyrhynchince. 



Gyanotis is found only in the reed-hods of the temperate portion 

 of South America. 



1. Cyanotis azarae. 



Elrey, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 72. 



Sylvia rubigastra, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 277 (1817) ; id. Enc. 

 3Ieth. p. 480. 



" Regulus azarse, Licht." Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iii. p. 966 (1823). 



B«gulus omnicolor, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 271, pi. 166 (1825). 



Regulus byronensis, J. E. Gray, in Griff. Anim. Kingd. ii. p. 42. 



Tachuris omnicolor, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 55. 



Tachuris rubrigastra, cT Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 333. 



Cyanotis omnicolor, Bp. Consp. i. p. 185 ; Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 34, 

 et 1878, p. 395 (rep. Arg.). 



Cyanotis azarae, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Rein. ii. p. 54 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 212 ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 99, et 1867, pp. 327, 338 ; Scl. et Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 159 ; iid. Nomenel. p. 47 ; Taez. P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 535, et 1879, p. 233 ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 243 ; Durnf. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 160, et 1877, p. 177 (rep. Arg.); Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 32 

 (rep. Arg.) ; White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 39 (rep. Arg.) ; Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1883, p. 423 (Chili) ; Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI. viii. 

 p. 200 (Entrerios) ; Scl. et Hudson, Arg. Orn. i. p. 142. 



Above dark bronzy green ; head black ; superciliaries yellow ; 

 vertical spot crimson ; wings black, broad tips of the lesser wing- 

 coverts and broad edgings of some of the secondaries white, forming 

 a large white bar on the wing ; tail black, greater part of outer 

 pair of rectrices, outer web, and broad tip of next pair and narrow 

 tips of third pair white : beneath bright ochraceous yellow ; chin 

 whitish ; crissum crimson ; incomplete band across the lower breast 

 black ; under wing-coverts white ; bill black ; feet dark flesh- 

 colour : whole length 4*2 inches, wing 2'5, tail 1"7. Female 

 similar. 



Hah. La Plata, Chili, and Western Peru. 



a, b. J 2 ad. sk. Buenos Ay res ( White). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayres (Hud- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 son). 



d. 2 a( i- s k- Conchitas, Buenos Ayres Sclater Coll. 



(Hudson). 



e. Ad. sk. Punta Lara, Buenos Ayres. C. Dumford [C.]. 



f. 2 a d- sk. Rio Negro of Patagonia. W. Hudson [C.J. 



g. <3 ad. sk. Coquimbo, Chili (Markham). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Chili (Meed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 i-h. Ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



l-m. Ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



n. Ad. sk. Lima, Peru (Nation). Sclater Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



